Speaker
Lawrence Sulak
(Physics Dept, Boston University)
Description
Cosmological hypotheses and oracular dreams of grand-unification foretold that neutrinos might weigh a little bit, that those elusive particles could blow up stars, and that active galactic nuclei could power hyper-energetic neutrinos. Testing those theories demanded new technologies, optimized to search for rare interactions. Those theories led to the invention of MACRO and other gigantic undergrounf detectors. Let's recall the early days of that technologies.
